Man can and may be responsible for many crimes against Nature, but not all of them. The 'all-or-nothing' people would have you believe that Mankind is responsible for all changes such as Global warming and fluctuations of weather.
There may be some truth to Man's potentiating some changes that are happening but we should not take credit for all of it. A new CNN report claims the upper layer of the Earth's atmosphere (the thermosphere) has shrunk drastically. "The thermosphere interacts strongly with the sun and hence is greatly influenced by the sun's solar activity, which occurs in cycles. When solar activity is high, solar extreme ultraviolet rays warm and expand the thermosphere. When it's low, the opposite occurs. The collapse occurred during what's known as a "solar minimum" from 2007 to 2009, during which the sun plunged into an unprecedented low of inactivity. Sun spots were scarce and solar flares were nonexistent, NASA reported. Still, the collapse of the thermosphere was bigger than the sun's activity alone can explain." Apparently this is the bigger contraction in 43 years. See entire article here.
In September, two research satellites are scheduled to orbit in tandem. It is believed that the shrinkage is reversing itself. Cl;ick here for more detail. NASA funded researchers are quoted saying: "Something is going on that we do not understand," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It's a Space Age record." Read more.
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